The following interpolation key is invalid: name

[jordan-violet]

I’m trying to update system_messages.welcome_tl1_user.text_body_template and address the user’s name in the message, but getting the error: The following interpolation key is invalid: name:

Is there a library or doc that I’m missing where we can see which variables can be used in which messages?

[Lilly]

i think this may be your answer:

Available interpolation key(s)

The only ones available are the ones in the original translation phrase. That’s it.

[jordan-violet]

Thanks Lilly, that’s a bummer. It would be nice to address the user’s name in some of them.

[supermathie (Michael Brown)]

This is not my area but taking a look at ALLOWED_CUSTOM_INTERPOLATION_KEYS it appears you can use additional values for certain messages.

In particular:

    %w[system_messages.welcome_user] => %w[username name name_or_username],

I think if we changed this to:

    %w[system_messages.welcome_] => %w[username name name_or_username],

It would let you use those for other welcome messages. I’ll ask around.

[gerhard (Gerhard Schlager)]

In theory we should be able to add all system_messages.* keys as long as they have subject_template and text_body_template subkeys. Because all of them should be handled by the SystemMessage class which adds username, name, name_or_username as additional interpolation keys.

discourse/discourse/blob/6fa9a8990d07f942ee52b3d721135b84d79d8a7c/lib/system_message.rb#L27-L36

[Lilly]

there we go

Interpolation Keys for Customizing Text and Email Templates

While Customizing text in Discourse or Customizing specific email templates you may have noticed that there are placeholder variables available in some templates. In Discourse we call these Interpolation Keys. Example of Interpolation Keys for the Account Created email template: [image] These placeholders can be moved around within the template they belong to, but they are only available in that template and cannot be moved around to different templates, as they are all backed by server code…

[jordan-violet]

This is indeed the way! Thank you so much for your efforts, Lilly—truly appreciated!

[Lilly]

heh well i didn’t do anything other than copy and paste. those other good folks @gerhard, @supermathie and @SaraDev deserve the credit

[jordan-violet]

They say it takes a village!

[mjr4684 (Michael R)]

Could this behavior be extended to chat so notification emails can include the user’s name in the subject instead of their username?

[Lilly]

you would have to edit the chat email text and change the key from username to their full name. but i have no idea if this is possible. the chat configuration is not my forte. i would go to settings-customize-email and search for a chat email template in the top drop down menu. all the editable email templates are in that drop down.